addiction. “All I want is freedom,” a lot of people say. But freedom from what? Who is enslaving you that you can’t get away from?

Freedom came to the porous self, freeing the inner life from the anxiety of works to be a slave to our neighbor. We are now to be possessed by a divine action that

Whenever I’ve tried to free my life from a set of the circumstances that continuously oppress it, I’ve been instantly surrounded by other circumstances of the same order, as if the inscrutable web of creation were irrevocably at odds with me. I yank from my neck a hand that was choking me, and I see that my own hand is tied to a noose that fell aro